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Show Miners Voting on Rockefeller's Plan Company Directors Approve of It; Movement t0 Dismiss Criminal Cases Started Denver, Colo., Oct. 4. Tho directors direc-tors of tho Colorado Fuel & Iron company today accepted on behalf of tho company tho Rockefeller industrial industri-al plan. At the samo time, at a half dozen or more camps of tho company in southern Colorado referendum votes wero being taken by tho miners. min-ers. Tho result of tho referendum vote reported tonight from four raining camps indicates tho miners are overwhelmingly over-whelmingly In favor of the new Industrial In-dustrial plan. Tho results reported aro: Berwlnd, 140 for, 9 against; Tobasco, 13S for, 23 against; House, 139 for, C against; Lester, 97 for and 9 against, Flvo of tho oleven directors of tho Colorado Fuel & Iron company were present nt the- meeting at which the plan was accepted. It Is understood that several other directors will sign tho minutes of tho meeting giving a majority voto of approval. Humors that Governor George A. Carlson was on tho l'oint of ordering a dismissal of tho most of tho criminal crim-inal charges growing out of the coal miners strike of 1913-1914 were cur- rent today In circles closo to tho stnto administration. Mr. Hockofclior called upon the governor and talked over with him the general industrial situation. Both the governor and Mr. Uockereller de-nied de-nied that the latter had suggested that any of tho strlko cases be drop-t drop-t ped. Governor Carlson stated that ho had not yet decided whether or not to Instruct tho attorney general to dismiss any or all of tho cases. Attorney Genoral Fred Farrar said ho bad received no instructions from tho governor and so far as ho was advised tho cases would go to trial according to schedule. He was uncertain un-certain whether or not the governor had authority to stop a prosecution Instituted by the state legal department. depart-ment. "So far as I am concerned," ho add-ed, add-ed, "murder Is murdor and arson Is arson, whether commltteed during a strlko or not." |
